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Douglas Reeman
It’s the year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And, from…
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It is February 1943 and as the balance of the war slowly changes in Britain’s favour, Lieutenant Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. But if the…
The mine is an impartial killer and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. They are brave, lonely men with something to prove…
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The Battle of Jutland exposed the battlecruisers weakness, its armour could be pierced by a single shell. As Britain prepares to invade occupied Europe, the Reliant is the last of…
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The Volunteers were the men and women of the Royal Navy’s Special Operations units, carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts. Each was hand-picked for their individual skills, and all…
They are called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran and survivor of the close…
The Battle of the Atlantic was a full-scale war. It was a relentless, savage war against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea in an arena known to its embittered…
Memories are short of HMS Royston - they have to be. As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs she must carry out her vital role whatever the…
Captain David Blackwood is ordered to Hong Kong and before long, he and his cousin, Ralf, are embroiled in the Boxer Rebellion. David is ordered to escort a beautiful German…
Follows British commando Michael Blackwood from Burma to North Africa and finally to Sicily on mission after mission in advance of Allied Forces fighting to take back lost territories.
It is the turn of young Jonathan Blackwood to take up arms and fight in his country’s war, a conflict that has already embroiled all of Europe: World War 1…
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The tide of defeat is thought to be turning, the enemy no longer advancing along the North African coast with Egypt and India as final objectives, and Kearton’s is a…
With historical authenticity and the novelist’s feel for detail, action, and emotion, Reeman brings the story of men at sea alive.
Douglas Reeman’s 30th naval thriller 1941 To the residents and defence forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, th war in Europe remains remote. Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke, captain of…
With his own motor yacht, Sea Fox , former naval officer Philip Vivian sets out on a profitable - if legally dubious - adventure, proposed to him by an old…
There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death.‘Kiel…
In November 1941, Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of HMS Porcupine. To the shell-shocked Trewin, the gun boat and her five elderly consorts symbolise the ignorance…
Out in the wastes of the Indian Ocean, British ships are sinking. The cause: a German armed raider, disguised to deceive unwary merchantmen. In Williamstown, Australia, HMS Andromeda awaits transfer…
As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Now he joins the escort carrier, GROWLER, a posting which takes him first…
At last the British agreed to send them a small flotilla of motor torpedo boats under the command of John Devane. Devane had been in the Navy since the outbreak…
In Danger’s Hour is a thrilling novel of the least-known, least glamorous and most dangerous areas of war by the master storyteller of the sea. Reeman’s previous novels include Battlecruiser…
When the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland, disgraced Commander Justin Rolfe and the condemned gunboat HMS Wagtail , are ordered to bring out…
a relentless, savage war against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea - in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS Gladiator was part…
After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. Men like Lieutenant James Ross, awarded the Victoria Cross for his work in underwater sabotage, or…
In Malta, 1941, most people see the HMS Saracen as an ugly, obsolete ship. But to Captain Richad Chesnaye, she brings back memories - of the First World War, when…
Hiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16, one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy. But her four-man crew knows that the outcome of the…
It is December 1917. Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the Vulcan sails from…
In 25 years of continuous service, the eight destroyers had seen every kind of action at sea. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla. Now they were going to be used…
Reissued to mark the fortieth anniversary of its first publication, the debut maritime novel from the author of WINGED ESCORT. During the Second World War, a fleet of amateur sailors…
